Administration officials said that the State Department last fall began taking a strong stance against Communist participation In the Italian government partly because of encouragement from Christian Democratic Party leaders. The State Department, the officials said, has refrained from further public comment for the last two months, also partly because of promptings by the Christian Democrats, who felt that the strategy was backfiring. Aides to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said that he had wanted to avoid making this a public issue, but that his hand had been forced by misperceptions of the administration’s position, by unauthorized disclosures and by his own desire to make European allies face up to the question of Communist participation in their governments.
Prospects for the long‐awaited European Communist conference have dimmed once again as Communist officials from East and West have run into fresh trouble during a two‐day preparatory conference in East Berlin. A communiqué this morning after an all‐night session said the preparatory talks had been “interrupted” to give delegates from 28 participating European Communist parties a chance to report back to their central committees. The terse statement published by the East German press agency, described the atmosphere as “businesslike” and “comradely,” which means there was disagreement.
Finland and the United States signed an agreement in Helsinki setting up an educational trust fund with Finland’s early payoff of its World War I debt. The Baltic nation is the only country that kept up its payments on a $10 million loan negotiated in 1918 and due to be paid off in 1984. Finland reached agreement with President Ford during the 1975 European security conference in Helsinki to pay off the loan early if the payment of $2.7 million could be deposited in a special trust fund in Finland that would be administered by the Fulbright Commission to continue a Finnish-American educational exchange program. The current signing sets up that trust fund.
A white youth in East London died from stab wounds after a series of marches by Asians and British rightwing groups in mounting racial tension. Twenty-six persons were arrested during the demonstrations, organized by both immigrant groups protesting recent attacks on Asians in London and by fringe British groups objecting to Asian immigration to Britain. Police said the youth was stabbed during a racial clash following the protest.
France has narrowly avoided a political crisis that threatened to break up a coalition Government, but tensions remain high between President Valery Gismrd d’Estaing and the Gaullists, who form the biggest part of his parliamentary majority. Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, leader of the Gaullists, signalled an end to the immediate troubles of the Government by announcing that most Gaullists would now support a modified version of a capital gains tax. The proposed legislation, which is being debated in lengthy, choleric sessions at the National Assembly, is a burning political issue. It is also a cornerstone of President Giscard d’Estaing’s efforts at change.
Portugal is about to elect a new president, thus completing a two‐year effort to organize a democratic republic after a half century of dictatorship. But settling the institutional problems will still leave the country as unsettled as it has been since the revolution in April 1974. With the backing of the country’s three largest parties and wide support within the armed forces, the next chief of state is expected to be General Antonio Ramalho Eanes, the tough‐talking 41‐year‐old army chief of staff. General Ramalho Eanes is a strong anti‐Communist but otherwise remains something of a political mystery. He has four opponents up to now, two of them military men, for the election on June 27. If he cannot get a majority then he will have to face a run‐off two weeks later.
A Madrid court ordered the release on hail today of a prominent lawyer and opposition figure who along with a Communist labor leader, Marcelino Camacho, and two others face up to 30 years in jail on political charges. The lawyer, Antonio Garcia-Trevijano, was arrested at the end of March with Mr. Camacho and the two other men as they were about to make public a statement on the creation of a Spanish opposition group, the Democratic Coordination. They were charged with conspiring to change the form of the state. Mr. Camacho, Francisco Alvarez Dorronsoro, a Maoist leader, and Nazario Aguado, another leftist, were freed on bail of 100,000 pesetas (about $1,500) on May 25. The court today set bail for Mr. Garcia-Trevijano at 500,000 pesetas (about $8,000).
The Irish Government increased its parliamentary majority to six today when it surprised the country by winning a seat traditionally held by the opposition. In one of two by‐elections, the Dublin southwest constituency, to date a stronghold of the Fianna Fail, the main opposition party, fell to Brendan Halligan, a labor candidate. Senator Halligan is the general secretary of the Labor Party, the junior partner in the coalition government. The other seat, in Donegal northeast, was won by Paddy Keaveny, an unofficial Fianna Fail candidate nominated by a former cabinet minister, Neil Blaney. Mr. Blaney was fired from the then Fianna Fail Government in 1970 in connection with charges of gun‐running for the Irish Republican Army.
Andrei Amalrik, the dissident historian and writer who succumbed to police harassment last April and applied for an exit visa to Israel, has been informed by Soviet authorities that his visa is ready to be picked up, his wife, Gyusel, told Western reporters today. Mr. Amalrik and his wife had not wanted to leave the Soviet Union, and they have no plans In live in Israel. But the authorities want them out so much that they have broker their own standing procedures and agreed to let them fly directly to the Netherlands. The Amairiks plan to travel in Western Europe and then pro ??? to the United States.
Pope Paul VI appointed Irish-born Archbishop John Gordon to the post of apostolic pronuncio to the Netherlands. Gordon, 63, has served since 1971 as nuncio to India. He succeeds conservative Angelo Felici, 56, who has held the Dutch post since 1967 and was often criticized by liberal Dutch bishops.
The London Gazette announced that The Queen would confer the Honour of Knighthood on Group Captain Robert Steuart Bader, C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C., “For services to disabled people.” Pilot Officer Douglas Bader had lost both of his legs in an airplane crash, 14 December 1931. He was medically retired from the Royal Air Force as medically unfit for service. With World War II approaching, Bader applied to the Air Ministry for reinstatement but was initially refused. Later, after revaluation, Bader was accepted, sent to refresher flight training, and then on to a fighter squadron. Bader quickly rose to Section Leader, Flight Commander, Squadron Leader and Wing Commander. Flying Hawker Hurricanes and Supermarine Spitfires, he shot down at least 20 enemy airplanes. He had twice been awarded the Distinguished Service Order and twice, the Distinguished Flying Cross. On 9 March 1941, Douglas Bader was himself shot down over France. With difficulty he was able to parachute from his Spitfire, and was quickly captured. Initially held in a hospital, Bader escaped. Recaptured, he was taken to a series of prisoner of war camps, where he continued his escape attempts. Finally the Germans imprisoned him in the notorious Colditz Castle where he remained for the rest of the war. He retired from the Royal Air Force in 1946 with the rank of Group Captain. After the war, Douglas Bader flew for the Shell Oil Company. But he also worked unceasingly to better the lives of other disabled persons. He would tell them, “Don’t listen to anyone who tells you that you can’t do this or that. That’s nonsense. Make up your mind, you’ll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.”
Syria agreed to remove some of its troops from Beirut and will lift the blockade from Sidon. Moslems say that Syria is moving more tanks and men to southern Lebanon.
A cease-fire first announced over the Damascus radio appeared to be taking a shaky hold in Beirut despite a report by the Beirut radio that a Syrian armored column was moving toward the sensitive Arkub region near the Israeli border. The Beirut radio confirmed the cease-fire, the result of mediation, but it maintained that Syrian troops would be obliged to leave Lebanon in 10 days. The Damascus report of the cease-fire provisions was considerably less precise. It said that an end of hostilities should lead to an “overall solution.” There was no sign of a Syrian withdrawal in Beirut, but a blockade of the city’s western neighborhoods eased a little.
Syria and the Arab League were reported to be near agreement on the details of establishing a multinational Arab peacekeeping force in Lebanon. The Arab League’s Secretary General, Mahmoud Riad, met in Damascus with the Syrian Foreign Minister, Abdel Halim Khaddam, and said that their talks had been “fruitful” and that a Syrian agreement on the specifics of putting the peacekeeping force into place might come “soon.”
President Ford and Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Miki will meet in Washington June 29-30, the White House announced. Details of the planned talks were not announced, but Miki is expected to bring up the continuing investigation in Tokyo of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. payoffs in Japan.
Three drug manufacturers in Japan have admitted that an anti-diarrheal medicine they produced contained quinoform, a substance that caused a nerve-paralyzing disease, and offered an undisclosed out-of-court settlement to about 3,100 users of the drug. The companies were Ciba-Geigy, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. and Tanabe Pharmaceutical Co. A spokesman at Ciba-Geigy headquarters in Summit, New Jersey, said the firm does not market the drug in the United States.
Juan María Bordaberry, the President of Uruguay since 1971, was deposed by the Uruguayan armed forces in Montevideo. Bordaberry won a close election, but a coup d’état in 1973 reduced his power to being the nominal president in a “civil-military administration”. He was replaced by his vice-president, Alberto Demicheli, until an electoral college could be formed from military officers and civilian members of the Council of State to select a permanent president.
A public attack by five Chilean lawyers on the repressive methods of the state security police here has caused a furor in the debate on human rights by the general assembly of the Organization of American States. A 6,000 word declaration by the lawyers, circulated to the American foreign ministers here, said the supreme court and the Ministry of Interior exercised no control over the agents of the National Intelligence Directorate, which answers directly to President Augusto Pinochet. The declaration provoked angry retorts from all the spokesmen of the military government and a reply from Jaime Eyzaguirre, president of the supreme court, who said that there was no control over the security agency or military courts but who felt that was the way things should be under a state of siege.
Armed kidnapers freed 25 Latin American refugees after holding them for 24 hours, severely beating most of them and ordering them to leave Argentina immediately. The victims of the right-wing raiders said they were afraid to talk about their experience for fear of reprisals. The U.N. High Commission for Refugees, which assists about 11,000 Latin American refugees living in Argentina, said it would protest the incident to Argentina’s military government.
The railroad war in Angola is dragging on with its heroes and deserters and at a steep cost for the country, as well as the neighboring countries of Zambia and Zaire. The Benguela Railroad, which used to be the principal land route into central Africa, has discontinued international traffic since last August and is increasingly under attack by guerrillas in central and eastern Angola. The Western‐backed nationalist movement known as the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, which was defeated in the civil war last February by the ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola and its Cuban allies, has resumed its guerrilla activity, mainly along the railroad line. The front now extends from Vouga, a railroad town 360 miles east of here, to the Luau River on the border with Zaire.
At least 10 people were killed during a grenade attack on Ugandan President Idi Amin Thursday night, travelers from Uganda said in Nairobi, Kenya. Uganda Radio reported that “a few people, including some assassins, died on the spot.” First reports had said one person had been killed and 30 injured, several critically. The travelers said some persons officially reported wounded had actually been shot by jittery security men after the attack. The informants said Amin suffered only minor injuries from shrapnel. A cabinet member reportedly was jailed and was being interrogated.
Rhodesia said today its jet fighters have pounded a Mozambique army post in retaliation for a three‐hour mortar and rocket barrage from its neighbor and told another neighbor — Zambia — to take it as a warning. The air strike Thursday, the first major attack on a Mozambique army base since President Samora Machel closed the border with Rhodesia, knocked out an ammunition dump and a mortar position, the Government spokesman said. “The attack on Espungahera can he seen as a warning to Zambia and as an indication that Rhodesia is prepared to step up the pace and extent of the war if provoked,” the spokesman, said. The warning, coupled with the report of the air strike, was in response to an announcement earlier from Salisbury that Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda had given the goahead for Rhodesian guerrillas to open a new front along Zambia’s northwestern border.
A space lab that may house men in orbit for as long as three months is being prepared by the Soviet Union, two cosmonauts said. Peter I. Klimuk and Vitali I. Sevastyanov, who spent 63 days in the Salyut 4 space lab last year, told an international space science meeting in Philadelphia that the 19-ton Salyut 5 space station would be able to house as many as six cosmonauts. Salyut 5 will have two docking ports so it can accept two Soyuz supply ships at the same time, they reported.
Ronald Reagan received 18 of Missouri’s 19 Republican delegates. President Ford now has 1,011 delegates; Reagan has 915. Both Ford and Reagan appealed to the Missouri convention for votes. Reagan told the convention that he believes he offers the best opportunity for victory in November. 74 more delegates are at stake in Iowa and Washington.
Ronald Reagan dealt President Ford a severe blow by taking 18 of the 19 at-large delegates at the Republican convention in Springfield, Missouri. The Ford campaign had thought it faced no serious threat in the state. The new pro-Reagan slate means that Mr. Reagan will get at least 30 of Missouri’s 49 votes at the Republican National Convention in Kansas City. Mr. Ford is assured of only 16, with three still undecided. One of the reasons that Kansas City had been chosen for the convention was Mr. Ford’s certainty that he could count on a friendly host delegation in Missouri. The Missouri convention was the first in a series of 11 that will be held in various states over the next five weeks to choose 270 national convention delegates. The 270, in addition to the 165 undecided delegates, will determine the outcome of the Ford-Reagan battle.
Democrats have agreed to make unemployment a major issue in the presidential race. The party’s platform committee said that their candidate, Jimmy Carter, should call for a reduction of unemployment by 3% in a four-year period. Carter summarized his views in a 37-page statement. Carter and Alabama Governor George Wallace met in Montgomery, and Carter will meet Monday with Representative Morris Udall in New York.
Reports on construction flaws and technical violations continue to come almost daily from the half-finished 800-mile trans-Alaska pipeline, despite management shake-ups, federal intervention and supposedly tightened inspection practices. State and federal investigators say that faulty welding, mismanaged quality control problems are so pervasive that they could delay the pipeline’s completion, endanger its safety and add hundreds of millions of dollars to its ultimate cost.
Elizabeth Ray reportedly told investigators that she was ordered to have sex with Senator Mike Gravel in order to gain political favor for ex-Representative Ken Gray. Gray and Gravel denied the charges. Ex-congressional secretary Colleen Gardner is ready to testify that she was on the Gray-owned houseboat when the Ray-Gravel encounter occurred. Gardner claims that Representative John Young paid her a high salary for her sexual favors. Young denied the charges but refused comment.
A British television station faded out an interview with Ray because it was too boring; it showed a cartoon instead. Ray is in London to publicize her book.
Representative Wayne Hays is improving from his sleeping pill overdose. Hays has admitted that Ray was his mistress but denied that she didn’t do any work for her pay. Doctors have not yet asked Hays if he tried to kill himself.
President Ford held separate meetings today with a group of prominent opponents of court‐ordered school busing and a group of citizens from five cities where busing is either in effect or in immediate prospect.
The opponents, at a news conference in the White House briefing room, said Mr. Ford had told them “he would be the first to sign the statement” that the group read to him opposing busing. Representatives of the cities currently involved in busing, or faced with it, were not offered the use of the briefing room. At a short conference with reporters in the White House driveway in 91‐degree heat, they said they had merely reported to Mr. Ford the experiences of their areas.
A Senate investigator said in Washington that more than $1.1 million had been diverted from a union benefit plan of a New York Teamsters local to persons with organized crime connections and that other unions across the country might be losing additional millions through similar schemes. La Vern J. Duffy, assistant counsel for the Senate government operations investigation subcommittee, said the scheme to bleed funds from a severance pay-life insurance plan had been discovered in Teamsters Local 295. Similar plans, drawn up by the same person who prepared the New York one, are in effect in other union locals across the country, Duffy added.
Rep. Wilbur D. Mills (D-Arkansas), whose bout with alcoholism cost him his committee chairmanship, criticized a Rand Corp. report that indicated some alcoholics could take up normal drinking patterns after being treated. Said Mills: “I know enough about the illness to recognize the dangers to alcoholics of any encouragement based upon so-called scientific research that would lead them to believe that there is a permanent cure to alcoholism. The only way alcoholism can be cured is through total abstinence.”
About 1,500 people, with many politicians from both the Democratic and Republican parties, attended the funeral service at St. Patrick’s Cathedral for James Farley, a mastermind of Democratic political strategy, who died last week at the age of 88. Governor Carey led a group of political and business leaders.
Governor Carey, who had been New York state’s most notable uncommitted Democrat, endorsed Jimmy Carter for the Democratic presidential nomination. With Mr. Carter within reach of a first-ballot nomination at the Democratic National Convention, Mr. Carey’s endorsement was expected to have little political impact.
One week after the collapse of the Teton Dam, relief agencies narrowed to eight the number of persons believed missing. Ten persons were previously listed as killed, and 30 to 60 as missing. As residents worked to reclaim the flooded valleys of eastern Idaho, they still did not know what had caused the collapse, what the long‐range effect would be or who would pay for the repairs. A Federal disaster relief official said yesterday that it might take “some time” for Congress to approve the White House request for $200 million for the victims of the collapse. The official, William Mayer, said victims should seek low interest loans in the meantime and pay them off when the Federal restitution grants become available.
Representative Wayne L. Hays, fully alert for the first time since he took an overdose of sleeping pills Wednesday night, ate a light liquid breakfast and asked to see a newspaper today but made no mention of why he swallowed what doctors say could have been 10 times the prescribed dosage of the drug.
Detroit Mayor Coleman A. Young, enforcing a century‐old residency statute, suspended 132 city employees without pay yesterday. Most of them were white policemen and firemen who vowed to appeal the move. The suspensions culminated years of court and contract battles over the regulation, which requires city employees to live within the city limits. Although the rule has been on the books for 100 years, it took decisions by the United States and Michigan Supreme Courts, as well as a state arbitration panel decision, to give the city the muscle it needed for enforcement. When Mr. Young was elected as Detroit’s first black mayor in 2973, he vowed to enforce the residency rule. He said a nonresident police force would constitute “an occupying army” of whites in a largely black city.
One of every three murder victims in New York City last year did not know his killer — apparently giving New York the country’s highest rate of slayings classified as “stranger murders.” This was the principal finding in a police department study of murder patterns that analyzed the circumstances of the 1,500 homicides committed in the city in 1975. The high rate of murders involving a victim and an assailant who were unknown to each other appeared to be a major factor in the department’s decreasing success in making homicide arrests. “It’s easier to commit a murder here and melt away than anywhere else in the country.” Dr. Abraham Blumberg, a criminologist, said.
Students will return to City University of New York Monday, following the approval of $24 million in state aid to the bankrupt, 270,000-student institution. The university, the third largest college system in the nation, closed May 28 after failing to meet its payroll for that month. The Legislature approved the financial aid only after the university abandoned a 129-year tradition of free tuition and agreed to impose a tuition of up to $900 a year starting in September.
City of Philadelphia and state officials will go to Washington on June 21 to discuss with Justice Department representatives a request by Mayor Frank L. Rizzo for 15,000 Federal troops to help guard the city over the Fourth of July weekend. Governor Milton J. Shapp and Major General Harry J. Mier Jr., the state adjutant general, will be among the people meeting with Harold F. Tyler Jr., Deputy Attorney General. Lawyers for two coalition., planning demonstrations in the city during the July 4 Bicentennial celebration were notified of the meeting but were not invited, the Governor’s office said yesterday.
The pretrial hearings in a Dayton murder case were opened to the public and press by a decision of the Ohio Supreme Court. The trial judge had closed the courtroom, saying news coverage might prevent a fair trial. The high court, in a 5-2 vote, said the case could have been moved to another county if publicity had been a danger to fairness. Chief Justice C. William O’Neill wrote in the majority opinion: “Secret proceedings may be used to cover up for incompetent and corrupt police, prosecutors and judges and the influence of corrupt politicians on the judicial system.”
Subsidized medical services shown to have improved the health of needy children are threatened by governmental budget cuts, the Children’s Defense Fund said. In a report arguing for national health insurance for low-income children, the private child-advocacy group cited evidence from several cities, including Baltimore, Providence, Rhode Island, and Portsmouth, Virginia, that subsidized medical services had improved child health, but it said that some of those programs were experiencing budget cuts. “The disturbing part of our findings is that it is precisely those programs and services that have been found to be most effective that are being cut back or cut off,” a spokesman for the fund said.
Common birth defects such as mental retardation and blindness that are caused by abnormal oxygen levels in the blood during and shortly after birth may be reduced significantly by an invention of two West German physicians, Dr. Renate Huch and Dr. Albert Huch, who are husband and wife. The device electronically monitors oxygen levels continuously in the body without the need to pierce the skin with a needle, as is now the case, thereby achieving one of medicine’s longest sought goals. The device is being tested in selected hospitals throughout the world including Babies Hospital in New York City.
Mission Control scientists said today that the helium leakage had stabilized aboard the $450 million Viking I spacecraft on its way to an Independence Day landing on Mars. “There’s still a slight increase in the leak,” said a spokesman at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory here. “But it is very slow. To Mission Control, it means it has stabilized. What it’s doing right now is what they had expected.”
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The Pittsburgh Pirates collected 12 hits to only six for the Atlanta Braves but had to struggle for 11 innings before gaining a 4–2 victory. Al Oliver drove in the first Pirate run with a sacrifice fly in the opening frame and Dave Parker added an RBI with a double in the fifth, but the Braves came back to tie the score with two unearned tallies at the expense of Bruce Kison. However in the 11th, Ed Ott walked as a pinch-hitter for Bob Moose. Frank Taveras bunted and both runners were safe on a late throw to second. Richie Hebner followed with a sacrifice and Oliver then doubled to drive in two runs.
Jerry Morales drove in three runs and Jose Cardenal collected four straight hits as the Cubs defeated the Astros, 5–2. The Cubs settled matters in the first inning with three runs on a single by Rick Monday, balk by Joaquin Andujar, single by Cardenal and homer by Morales. Cardenal singled in the eighth for his fourth hit, moved up on a balk by Ken Forsch and scored on a single by Morales.
The Cardinals, who scored five runs in one inning in the previous night’s game and yet lost to the Reds, 7–6, scored five runs again in one frame and this time made them stand up for a 5–4 victory. However, three of their five runs were unearned as the result of an error by left fielder Bob Bailey, who dropped a fly ball by Bake McBride to open the third inning. Don Kessinger and Lou Brock followed with singles for one run and another scored when Tony Perez threw home late after fielding a grounder by Reggie Smith. Willie Crawford singled to drive in the third tally and Mike Tyson then put a capper on the outburst with a triple good for two runs. Perez and Pete Rose homered for the Reds. Brock tried batting righthanded for the first time in his 15-year career, with lefthander Will McEnaney on the mound for the Reds in the seventh inning, and struck out.
Rick Waits pitched the first six innings and Jim Bibby finished as the Indians shut out the White Sox, 3–0, although the Tribe’s two pitchers yielded 11 hits between them. The Indians collected only nine. Frank Duffy, who had just three RBIs to his credit since May 13, woke up and drove in two of the Indians’ runs, one on a bunt single and another on a sacrifice fly.
A six-run outburst in the fourth inning enabled the Tigers to defeat the Angels, 10–4. Successive singles by Aurelio Rodriguez, John Wockenfuss, Chuck Scrivener and Ron LeFlore accounted for the first two runs in the uprising. Pedro Garcia then doubled for another tally before Alex Johnson came up and unloaded a three-run homer to clip the Angels’ wings.
The Orioles suffered their eighth straight defeat in the club’s longest losing streak since 1958 when they bowed to the Royals, 7–6. The only thing that made the score close was a three-run homer by Reggie Jackson in the ninth inning. John Mayberry hit his fourth homer in as many games for the Royals and George Brett drove in two runs with a pair of sacrifice flies.
The Dodgers utilized homers by Steve Garvey, Bill Buckner and Rick Rhoden to defeat the Expos, 4–3. Garvey homered with Buckner aboard in the first inning, Buckner hit for the circuit in the third and Rhoden then provided his own winning run with the first homer of his major league career in the fifth. The blow proved decisive because the Expos rallied for their three runs in the seventh on a double by Barry Foote, a pass to Jim Dwyer and round-tripper by Jim Lyttle.
Joe Rudi homered in the fourth inning and, one out later, Gene Tenace also hit for the circuit to carry the Athletics to a 2–1 victory over the Brewers. Paul Mitchell, who pitched six innings and allowed the Brewers’ run on three singles in the fourth, gained his second victory of the season and first since May 10.
With the help of a homer and triple by Dwight Evans, Luis Tiant pitched the Red Sox to a 5–2 victory over the Twins. The Red Sox scored in the first inning on a double by Cecil Cooper and single by Fred Lynn before Evans hit his homer in the second. After adding an unearned run in that same stanza, the Red Sox completed their scoring in the fifth on a single by Lynn, Evans’ triple and a single by Rico Petrocelli.
A two-run single by Jeff Burroughs in the third inning was all that the Rangers needed to defeat the Yankees, 2–1. Jim Sundberg and Lenny Randle singled and Toby Harrah walked to load the bases before Burroughs unloaded his single to boost his league-leading RBI total to 44. Nelson Briles pitched the first five innings for the Rangers but then had to leave the game with a stiff leg as the result of being hit by a batted ball. The Rangers then had to call on three relievers to preserve their victory with the Yankees’ run coming on a homer by Carlos May in the ninth inning.
In a game that lasted one minute short of four hours, the Phillies scored twice in the 15th inning on a double by Tommy Hutton and defeated the Padres, 3–2. The Padres counted on a walk to Dave Winfield, single by Gene Locklear and infield out by Fred Kendall in the second. Dave Freisleben protected that edge through the first eight frames, allowing only one hit, but the Phillies tied the score in the ninth on singles by Mike Schmidt and Jay Johnstone, plus an infield out by Dick Allen. In the 15th, Terry Harmon doubled for the Phillies and, after an intentional pass to Schmidt, Hutton drove in both runners with his two-bagger. The Padres then staged a rally in their half, loading the bases and scoring one run before Phillies’ reliever Ron Schueler struck out Winfield to end the game.
Although collecting only two hits, the Mets defeated the Giants, 3–1, behind Craig Swan, who snapped his personal five-game losing streak. Swan gave up six hits. The Mets scored two of their runs without the benefit of a hit thanks to the wildness of John D’Acquisto, who allowed only one hit but nine walks and two wild pitches in six innings of work. In the second inning, three walks and an infield out by Swan produced one run and in the sixth a pass to Jerry Grote, an infield out, wild pitch and sacrifice bunt by Bud Harrelson accounted for another tally. The Mets’ other run, coming in the third inning, was unearned.
Pittsburgh Pirates 4, Atlanta Braves 2
Houston Astros 2, Chicago Cubs 5
St. Louis Cardinals 5, Cincinnati Reds 4
Chicago White Sox 0, Cleveland Indians 3
California Angels 4, Detroit Tigers 10
Baltimore Orioles 6, Kansas City Royals 7
Montreal Expos 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Oakland Athletics 2, Milwaukee Brewers 1
Boston Red Sox 5, Minnesota Twins 2
Texas Rangers 2, New York Yankees 1
Philadelphia Phillies 3, San Diego Padres 2
New York Mets 3, San Francisco Giants 1
Born:
Antawn Jamison, American NBA power forward and small forward (NBA All-Star, 2005, 2008; 2004 Sixth Man of the Year; Golden State Warriors, Dallas Mavericks, Washington Wizards, Cleveland Cavaliers, Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers), and director of pro personnel for the Washington Wizards, born in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Tae Satoya, Japanese skier and 1998 Winter Olympics gold medalist in the women’s freestyle skiing competition; in Sapporo, Japan.
Myo Minn Soe, Burmese fashion designer; in Mandalay, Burma.
Youssef Rakha, Egyptian writer; in Dokki, Egypt.
Died:
Ilya Kopalin, 75, Soviet Russian documentary filmmaker.
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